Law and Psychiatry
Clinical Rotations:
PGY-1
- 6 months Inpatient Psychiatry, including Major Psychiatric Syndromes, Substance Abuse and Emergency Psychiatry
- 4 months Medicine/Pediatrics
- 2 months Neurology
PGY-2
- 2 months Geriatric Psychiatry
- 5 months Inpatient Psychiatry
- 12 months Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, 1/2 day per week
- 2 months Child Psychiatry
- 2 months Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
- 1 month Addiction Psychiatry
- 12 months full-time outpatient psychiatry including Community psychiatry, and Managed Care Psychiatry.
PGY-4
- 3 months Junior Attending at the VAMC
- 2 months Eating Disorders
- 2 months Administrative Psychiatry
- 2 months Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
- 3 months selective
- 12 months of 1/2 day/week Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
Special arrangements have been made to allow all the First - Postgraduate Year residents to "come home" every Tuesday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm to be with their fellow psychiatric residents, attend a residents' meeting, have a business lunch and attend didactic lectures together.
Starting in the PGY-2 year residents spend one-half day per week in the adult Outpatient Clinic, evaluating and treating patients whom they can follow in therapy until graduation.